Re: [PATCH RFC v6 2/9] PM / devfreq: Add generic imx bus scaling driver

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On 20.11.2019 18:38, Angus Ainslie wrote:
> On 2019-11-20 08:30, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>> On 20.11.2019 17:41, Angus Ainslie wrote:
>>> Hi Leonard,
>>>
>>> On 2019-11-20 07:04, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>>>> On 20.11.2019 16:08, Angus Ainslie wrote:
>>>> Is "mainline ATF" an important criteria for Purism?
>>>
>>> Yes we intend to bring all of our patches to mainline and were hoping
>>> that NXP would be doing the same. Shouldn't a mainline kernel run on a
>>> mainline ATF ?
>>
>> You can still use mainline ATF (tested right now) but the imx8m-ddrc
>> driver won't probe.
> 
> Sorry I was talking about the DDR frequency scaling specifically. >
>> The ability to mix and match different branches of firmware and kernel
>> is very useful for testing. There might be slight incompatibilities but
>> in theory if a feature depends on both firmware and kernel support then
>> it should gracefully degrade rather than crash or hang.
> 
> I saw the check you put in for the correct ATF version and that's very
> helpful thanks.
> 
>> ATF support for this feature will be mainlined eventually, I picked the
>> linux side first because review is more challenging and changes are
>> much larger relative to what we have in our internal tree.
> 
> Do you have a patch against mainline ATF that we can test this feature
> with ?

Not right now, and imx atf is based on a slightly older version so some 
porting effort might be required.

--
Regards,
Leonard




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